19 



if) bushels rye, 320 bushels oats, 350 lbs. butter, 2000 lbs. 

 cheese, 4000 lbs. pork, 40 cart loads pumpkins, 75 tons English 

 hay- 10 cart loads fodder. 



And the present year, 1822, 



70 tons English hay, 10 tons run hay, 30G bushels oats, 1200 

 bushels potatoes, 300 bushels Indian corn, 500 lbs. Hax, (this by 

 estimation, it not being cleaned) 1 100 bushels English turnips, 

 300 bushels ruta baga, 100 barrels cider, 40 bushels waiter ap- 

 ples, 20 bushels winter pears, 2400 lbs. cheese, 400 lbs. butter, 

 6 bushels white beans, 12 calves, sold at 7 dollars each, 4 fat 

 oxen, sold for 294 dollars. 



The stock of the farm consists at present of 1 5 cows, 10 oxen, 

 3 yearling heifers, 1 spring calf, 1 late calf, 2 calves for butch- 

 ering, 19 swine, 34 sheep and lambs, and 1 horse. 



The labour on the farm is done by myself and wife, with 2 

 men and 1 boy, and 2 young women or girls : but in the most 

 hurrying times, particularly in getting in hay, as many hands 

 are employed to cut and cure it as can work to advantage. And 

 the only drink used by the labourers, both transient and sta- 

 tionary, is produced by the farm, viz. beer and cider. 



JOi\ATHAN MORSE, 2d. 



Methuen^ September 28, 1 822. 



N. B. This year's produce is added to this statement since 

 the description was made out. 

 JVewburyport^ November 13, 1822. 



Note. By the " shavings of the brooks and fields," Mr. Morse 

 means " the grass and weeds which grow in the brooks & round 

 the edges of the fields ;"" which, being unfit for fodder, are 

 thrown to the swine. 



The ''ten cart loads of fodder" were the produce of the 

 field of oats ; which being seeded with herds-grass and clover, 

 and these, after the oats were harvested, growing luxuriantly, 

 the field was mown (the oat stubble and young grasses) and 

 yielded (as Mr. Bartlet has since stated) " ten bulky loads of 

 excellent fodder, almost equal to second crop hay." 



